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  • Top Songs I listen to in 2022: Lizzy McAlpine – all my ghosts

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  • Mile-long RV encampment symbolizes growing housing crisis in Bay Area

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  • Meet Spryte: the street dog turned champion dog show winner 🐶 | ABC Australia

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  • Watch Principles of the American Revolution | Constitution 101: The Preamble

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  • Top Songs I listen to in 2022: Aldous Harding – Lawn

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  • Watch “A Brief Look at Texting and the Internet in Film” from Every Frame a Painting

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  • Being Disturbed About Being Disturbed

    Isn’t it bad enough to be disturbed about events? Now you find out you can even be disturbed about being disturbed about the event.

    A person is so afraid to ride in an elevator, that they develop a phobia about it. Soon, not only anxious about elevators, they worry about anxiety about elevators. “Something is drastically wrong with me,” they think; “Maybe I’m going crazy.” “I should not be so anxious about elevators that I can’t use them; that’s an awful problem; I can’t stand to have this fear; I must certainly be inadequate.” “I know I’m losing control; soon I’ll bet I won’t be able to take care of myself at all; I’ll wind up in a mental hospital.”

    Can you see how they are not only fearful of elevators, but down on themselves for being afraid of them? In this case there are two A-B-C sets:

    • Activating event A1: Elevator ride
    • Irrational belief B1: “I couldn’t stand to be trapped forever.”
    • Emotional consequence C1: Anxiety (about being trapped).
    • Activating event A2: Anxiety at C1 (about being trapped).
    • Irrational belief B2: “I should not be anxious about elevators.”
    • Emotional consequence C2: “I’m crazy.” Anxiety (about the anxiety).

    We might find it more efficient to work on the secondary set of A-B-C’s first. Once the person can think differently (more rationally) about having an emotional reaction, they may be more able to concentrate on working through the first set of A-B-C’s.

    Do you also have a few sets of secondary A-B-C’s that prevent you from making progress?

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  • Top Songs I listen to in 2022: SASAMI – Make It Right

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  • Social Leaky Media

    Facebook has been involved in eight data breaches since its launch in 2004. The most famous breach was the Cambridge Analytica scandal, where the company sold the data of 87 million users.
    In 2021, Facebook acknowledged a data leak that exposed the personal information of approximately half a billion users. The data included names, birthdays, locations, and phone numbers. Facebook said the leak stemmed from a security problem in 2019 that they had since fixed. They denied any wrongdoing, saying that the data was scraped from publicly available information on the site.
    Facebook parent company Meta Platforms agreed to pay $725 million in settlement in a lawsuit seeking damages for allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, access to user data. Facebook users who had an active account at any point between May 2007 and December 2022 can apply to receive a piece of the settlement.

    Instagram has had several data breaches in recent years, including:
    In August 2020, an unsecured database containing 235 million profiles from Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube was discovered.
    In January 2021, a data leak exposed scraped data on 214 million social media accounts.
    In September 2022, Irish regulators fined Instagram €405m for data privacy violations.
    Instagram was accused of processing children’s privacy data for business accounts and on a user registration platform. Earlier, teen users’ (aged between 13 and 17) accounts were made ‘public’ by default, and they were easily targeted by ads and hacking methods.

    Twitter had a data breach in November 2021 that was caused by a vulnerability in Twitter’s software. The vulnerability allowed hackers to learn if an email address or phone number was associated with an existing account. The vulnerability was first flagged to Twitter in January 2022. Twitter fixed the flaw on January 13, 2022.
    The breach involved tricking a piece of software linked to Twitter called an API (application programming interface) into revealing hidden details about accounts. Hackers were able to submit an email address or phone number to Twitter’s systems to reveal the username associated with that phone number or email address.
    At the end of 2022, there were reports that hackers were selling data stolen from 400 million Twitter users. Researchers now say that a widely circulated trove of email addresses linked to about 200 million users is likely a refined version of the larger trove with duplicate entries removed.

    Sources: Wired, Firewall Times, CNN, Verge.

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  • Police officer and furry partner share an incredible bond | Pets & Animals | ABC Australia

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